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6A Sunday, December 25, 2022
The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
SATURDAY FUN+GAMES
CROSSWORD
PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED
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12-24-22 ©2022 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS
ACROSS
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5 Biscayne Bay
city
10 Muscle quivers
14 Off the —
15 Caesar’s year
16 Water, in Baja
17 Dilly
18 Walk heavily
19 Ears of corn
20 Shut the gate
22 Menu listing
24 Corny
25 -Pan”
26 Taverns
29 Frosted treat
33 Heir to the
throne
34 Vinyl records
35 Some
toothpaste
36 TV statuettes
37 Gift-tag word
38 Cochise’s
warrior
40 Head, slangily
41 Robin’s beak
42 Lyrical
43 Crushed, as
grapes
46 Omen
47 Coal alternative
48 Radio station
need
49 Troubleshoots
52 Less pale
55 “Woe is me!”
56 Windy City
airport
58 Pub brews
60 Annoy
61 Consumer
advocate
62 Road division
63 Smidgens
64 Molts
65 Weather word
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2 France, long ago
3 Earthenware
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5 Lever or pulley
6 Shore
indentations
7 Battery post
8 Fall flower
9 Momentum
10 Ploy
11 The Munsters’
bat
12 Third power, in
math
13 Business end.
21 Gator cousins
23 Sleep briefly
26 Made
purchases
27 Knight’s attire
28 In-between
state
29 Paramedic’s
skill
30 Striped stone
31 Bacon or
Costner
32 Put in office
34 Easy toss
37 Half a sawbuck
38 Used a drill
39 Hung-jury
results
41 Ricky and Willie
42 Applies makeup
44 Puts out a fire
45 Use a spade
46 Served the tea
48 Export or
import
49 Scurry
50 Essay byline
51 Hairless
53 Joie de vivre
54 Gamblers’
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57 Nasty laugh
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Unscramble these Jumbles,
one letter to each square,
to form four ordinary words.
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
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All Rights Reserved.
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Now arrange the circled letters
to form the surprise answer, as
suggested by the above cartoon.
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Yesterday’s
(Answers Monday)
Jumbles: EVENT AWFUL BALLAD ADJOIN
Answer: When the young boxer learned how to throw a
quick punch, it was a — “JAB” WELL DONE
By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
INSTRUCTIONS: Find as
many words as you can by
linking letters up, down,
side-to-side and diagonally,
writing words on a blank
sheet of paper. You may
only use each letter box
once within a single word.
Play with a friend and
compare word finds,
crossing out common
words.
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Boggle 0 BrainBusters Bonus
We put special brain-busting words into the
grid of letters. Can you find them?
Find AT LEAST FIVE INSECTS in the
grid of letters.
YOUR BOGGLE 0
RATING
151+ = Champ
101-150 = Expert
61-100= Pro
31 - 60 = Gamer
21 - 30 = Rookie
11 - 20 = Amateur
0-10 = Try again
Answers to Friday's Boggle’ BrainBusters:
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BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc.
© 2022 Hasbro, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved. WWW.bogglebrainbUSters.COrn
SUDOKU
DIFFICULTY RATING: ★★★★★
12/24 © 2022 Dist. by Andrews McMccl Syndication for UFS
HOW TO PLAY:
Each row, column
and set of 3-by-3 box
es must contain the
numbers 1 through 9
without repetition.
PREVIOUS SOLUTION
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By DAVID
OUELLET
HOW TO PLAY: All the words listed below appear in the puzzle — hori
zontally, vertically, diagonally and even backward. Find them, circle each
letter of the word and strike it off the list. The leftover letters spell the
WONDERWORD.
WINTER WORDS Solution: 8 letters
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Activity, Bake, Blizzard, Boots, Camp, Chimney, Cold, Cool,
Deep, Draft, Earmuffs, Eggnog, Fireplace, Frigid, Frosty,
Games, Gingerbread, Hats, Holiday, Iceberg, Ice Fishing, Ice
Hockey, Ice Skating, Kids, Lake, Lights, Melt, Mittens,
Shovel, Skiing, Sled, Snowballs, Snowboarding, Snowing,
Snowman, Snowstorms, Snowsuit, Toboggan, Tours, Warm
Yesterday’s Answer: Pyramid
The NEW Volume 70 can be purchased online at
www.WonderWordBooks.com, or call 1-800-642-6480.
CAROLYN HAX
tellme@washpost.com
Half sister not
helping care
for ailing aunt
Dear Carolyn:
My half sister was raised by her
mother and I by mine; our father
died when we were kids. We have
an aunt on our dad’s side, but no
other relatives. This aunt is now
elderly and ailing, but apparently
this aunt was very hateful to her
mother, so my half sister has cut
her off for the past 14 years.
The burden of caring for our
aunt falls completely on me now,
and my half sister refuses to help.
I am very resentful of having to
carry this load by myself. My half
sister has a big family on her moth
er’s side, with lots of support. I am
basically by myself. How do I come
to terms with having a sister who
lives as if our father and his side of
the family simply did not exist?
— The City of Dysfunction
I can sympathize with the strain.
However, you are asking your half
sister to provide aid and comfort to
a tormentor. In fact, she could be as
resentful of your helping someone
who terrorized her family as you
are of her unwillingness to pitch in.
If you plan another appeal, then
acknowledge your half sister’s pain
first, and make it clear you would
regard it as a show of support for
you, not your aunt. Assure her you
will understand if the answer is no.
Asking, good; guilt-tripping, bad.
Hi, Carolyn:
My partner and I live in a large
co-op apartment building that
employs a staff of about 10 guys.
We’ve always made a point of tip
ping the staff at Christinas. Money
is tight this year and we’re already
discussing cutting back on the
gift exchange with our families.
We don’t want to stiff the building
crew, especially since they really
do an excellent job. At the same
time, we’re going to end up spend
ing more on their gifts than on our
families’. I don’t doubt they could
use the money as much as we
could, but is there a less expensive
way to show our appreciation with
out being stingy?
—Nuttin’ for Christmas
When you go out to eat, I doubt
you’ll ever leave a greeting card in
lieu of a tip, just so you can afford
dessert. You know the wait staff
depends on tips. So conscience
demands that you do the waiter test
whenever you contemplate cutting
back tips.
The other reason you wouldn’t
blow off the wait staff is that tips
aren’t gifts. They’re compensation
— voluntary, but compensation
nonetheless. If there’s a cultural
expectation that a job well done
will be rewarded with a tip, then I
don’t think it’s fair to pull back on
your compensation to the building
staff just because it pinches you
more than usual lately. The staff,
after all, is still holding up its end of
the bargain.
Chat with Carolyn online at noon each
Friday at www.washingtonpost.com.
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by Tony Tallarico
Circle these English words and their Spanish equivalents that
appear in the grid horizontally, vertically, diagonally and backward.
Encierre estas palabras en ingles y sus equivalentes en espahol
que aparecen al reves, horizontal, vertical y diagonalmente.
PEACE ON EARTH
ENGLISH
SPANISH
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AMABILIDAD
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©2022 Tony Tallarico. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC 12/24/22
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